Internal evidence in the tracts suggests that Thomas
Nashe was a pen-name of Oxford's from 1589 to 1600.

Nashe is best remembered today for his part in a
quarrel in print with the Cambridge scholar Gabriel Harvey.

The Harvey/Nashe quarrel from 1589-1599 was one of
the most intriguing pamphlet wars in literary history. On the one side
was the Cambridge scholar Gabriel Harvey, and on the other the London satirist
Thomas Nashe. Why these two went to buffets in print for a decade, and
why there are so many references in the course of the quarrel to Edward
de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, has been, until now, an unsolved mystery.

An account
of the quarrel, and internal evidence in the texts
of the relevant tracts and documents, reveal that the underlying
cause of the quarrel was Harveys injurious statements in print
about Oxford, and that Oxford occupied such a prominent place in the
quarrel because the author behind the pen-name Thomas Nashe was
Oxford himself.